
"Religions, with all that they are and affirm," wrote C. G. Jung, "are so close to the human soul that it would be the least lawful to neglect them is precisely psychology." Jung dealt with the spiritual experience that not only permeates creeds, churches, and religious traditions, but is the very root of psychic life. What interests him is to understand the psyche as a space of the numinous, to conquer new ways of observing religious phenomena and experiences that until then were not usual in the psychology of religion.
All the work of C. G. Jung is a process of open search, a melting pot of psychological knowledge, philosophical thoughts, anthropological knowledge and wisdom of life from which arises the notion of the self, central in Analytical Psychology. This anthology of his writings on spirituality and transcendence traces a journey through the main milestones in the inve...read more